3 common CD burning types

People burn CD everyday, from CD music to data. Just simply put a blank CD in the drive, drag & drop files into the burning program and then hit BURN. Done.

But if you want to know what kind of that CD, these infos may help: (quoted from SADiE site) 

• Red Book CD is the specification for the most common type of audio CD on shelves, i.e. audio and CD-Text. SADiE supports writing of CD Text so that alphanumeric text may be displayed on compatible CD players. Typically the type of player that supports CD text are in-car CD players, although the advent of media players in computers opens up the potential for text display on screen. Still relatively rare, SADiE is one of the very few professional mastering systems that can create CD text within a master.
• Orange Book CD is not usually used for commercial releases, as it is less flexible about its PQ flag positioning than Red Book. For example, it does not support countdowns between tracks, and an Orange Book disk is usually burned track by track, rather than disk-at-once. Orange Book is the format used by standalone CD recorders such as Marantz, HHB, Pioneer etc, where the disk is created by pressing Record and Stop as on a tape recorder. SADiE supports Orange Book for track-by-track creation of disks, maybe for burning sound effects onto disk at the completion of each sound design project.
• Blue Book CD is sometimes known as Mixed Mode CD. This is where an audio disk plays as normal in an audio CD player, but when the disk is inserted into a Mac or PC, additional CD-ROM data is then available. This could include compressed versions of the audio, video files, graphics, band data, links to web sites, or any other data which could accompany the music. To create a Blue Book disk, a switch within the SADiE mastering page enables the engineer to write the audio portion of the disk first, and then subsequently add the CD-ROM data.

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